Chapter Thirty Five

Ryan's POV :

The fear of losing someone you love, is the worst case of fear. You'll try with your everything to make that person stay but at the same time you will be aware of how it's going out of your grasp and you can't do sh*t to stop that.

That was what I was feeling, my throat clogged up making it hard to say anything in my defence.

What can I even say?

Yes, that's right, what could I even say when every word that left her mouth was nothing but true?

"Ryan, I asked is it Natalie or not?" Gritting her teeth, Pearl asked.

I could only nod, still surprised that she knew. But how?

A laugh escaped out of her beautiful lips, when her eyes were red with unshed tears and her cheeks still wet; the evidence of the pain she felt because of me.

I never regretted meeting her, not even when I thought she cheated on me. But that moment, at that moment I regretted that she met me, a verified scoundrel who was the reason behind her humiliation. I didn't expect her to forgive me. How could I? Did